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The report for Activision Blizzard's earnings for the fourth and last quarter of 2015 is out and it contains some interesting information about all of its gaming titles.

As far as the company in general is concerned, 2015 marked a record year for Blizzard, with greatly increased revenues compared to 2014. Moreover, Blizzard reached an all-time high for Monthly Active Users in 2015. They are expecting to focus more on esports in 2016, since Activision Blizzard acquired MLG and they are renewing their partnership with ESPN for this year.

Let's continue with each separate gaming title now. For the first time, there was no mention of the amount of World of Warcraft subscribers in this earnings call report. However, the game still remains the number 1 MMO-RPG in the world. More interesting is the fact that Legion's release will follow Warcraft's June release in cinemas.

Moving on to Hearthstone, the popular card game reached over 40 million registered players before the release of League of Explorers. League of Explorers itself sold 20% more units in the first six weeks of release than Blackrock Mountain did in the same time frame. It's no surprise that Hearthstone is Activision Blizzard's big gun.

Heroes of the Storm received multiple awards in 2015. Arena Mode was also mentioned, as one of the game's main features for 2016. StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void also received multiple awards last year, while it sold more than 1 million copies in its first 24 hours of release. Nothing of interest was mentioned about Diablo III. We don't expect to see any new StarCraft or Diablo games any time soon, so the lack of focus on these two titles isn't surprising.

Lastly, the company - and the rest of the world - is eagerly looking forward to the release of Overwatch this spring. An interesting fact is that more than 8 million people signed up for Beta, so don't feel bad for not getting an invite!

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Warcraft III streamers have been invited to a secret Blizzard event held at the end of the month in the US. While there are no official information available at this time, streamers are rushing to get their US Visa just in time for the announcement.
The full list of attendees remains unknown, but we know that attending the event are HawK (RU), Foggy (UA) and Grubby (NL). Participants have signed a NDA and cannot divulge any further information. If you're a fan of Blizzard games, chances are you've come across Warcraft III. It all boils down to a single question; what's the announcement about?
Will Warcraft III get remastered or does the event have something to do with the unannounced MMO RTS project? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
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Quarterly results of the Activision Blizzard Earnings call are here and the company reached its highest operating income in Q4 2017 in a year without any major game releases.
Q4 Earnings Call Highlights (Slide Presentation)
Blizzard reached their highest operating income in a year with no major game releases thanks to delivering continuous content across franchises including Overwatch, Hearthstone and World of Warcraft.
2017 was an important year in which Blizzard prepared for their future growth initiatives, including the launch of the Overwatch League.
The inaugural season of the Overwatch League started on January 10 with 12 world-class team owners from across the globe, multiple league and team-level sponsors, a premium viewing experience, and a robust distribution strategy.
In its first week, the Overwatch League reached more than 10 millions unique viewers across the world with an average audience of more than 280,000 on a per minute basis.
Audience Reach: 385 million monthly active users (MAUs) in the quarter across the company (up from 384 million last quarter).
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Are you tired of not getting three Blizzards off during Frozen Orb? Waste too much time having to place blizzard after you activate it? Look no further! The following Macro will cast Blizzard at your cursor (Like quick cast). No targeting reticle. No worries. Enjoy.

This is how Blizzard Customer Support treats you:
Long story short, I was spamming the world chat, several people reported me and that's why I have got a 24h silence. That is totally correct and I have read the EULA and fully respect the rules of the game.
The silence ban has started and when I tried to say something in chat it says: "Your chat and mail privileges have been temporarily suspended pending Game Master review". Which means that the report case has not yet been reviewed, and I have already got silenced, which is odd, because what if I get a group of people and report someone who did nothing wrong and he gets 24h silence and he needs to wait until his case is reviewed?
Anyways the 24h almost passed, and the game gave me the same message that I mentioned above, so I opened a ticket to ask when do my case will get reviewed, and what can I do.
The first customer support guy overturned (stopped) the silence ban without any problem. I reopened the ticket to ask several questions about this issue.
This reopened ticked was reviewed by another customer support guy, who said that he reviewed my case, and applied the 24h silence ban once again. (Which is totally wrong and incorrect, because I have already had my 24h silence punishment).I have reopened the ticket, and told them that this is not correct and how come that now I am punished with a 48h silence ban overall, and asked them to remove the silence.
The last customer support guy who reviewed this ticket says that the first 24h silence was overturned before it was over, and that is why the 24 silence was re applied once again and closed the ticket so I cannot say anything else.
Once again, I totally understand that my actions were against the rules and I deserve the 24h punishment, but not 48h just because a customer support guy is incompetent and does not care about us and just applies the ban once again.
This kind of customer support behaviour is not at Blizzard's level, at least i thought so, and it is pathetic and disgusting.
Please share this because it can happen to you and anyone.

A finance colossus is expecting that Activision Blizzard will get a boost in the next 2-3 years, due to the release of new titles in the Diablo and Overwatch franchise, as well as a mobile game.
According to a CNBC article, Goldman Sachs raised its rating for Activision Blizzard shares, predicting strong sales results for its future titles. What, you would ask, are these future titles? The analysts of the finance company predict a new Diablo game by 2019, Overwatch 2 by 2020 and a new mobile title.
We've actually seen Blizzard job postings for all of the aforementioned titles this year. Obviously, the Diablo game brings back two words that we haven't heard since 2016: Diablo 4. The Overwatch 2 statement is a bit more perplexing: Overwatch is fine as it is, with the developers having promised a lot of free content to keep coming. However, they've never ruled out PvE plans in the Overwatch universe and perhaps that's what "Overwatch 2" will be about. Lastly, we already know that the upcoming mobile game is going to be in the Warcraft universe and it's probably going to be a MMO-RTS.
What do you guys think about these predictions?